BY THE REV. T. BLACKBURN. 711 



Newm., and Lehia henefica^ Newm., and civica, Newm., require 

 the foundation of a new genus near Sa7'othrocrepis. De 

 Chaudoir's lamented death rendered abortive the intention he 

 appears to have entertained of dealing further with the subject 

 at a later date, and I cannot find that any other author has dealt 

 with it ; I therefore propose for this genus the name Eciroma. 

 The species from King's Sound described by Sir William Macleay 

 under the name Sarothrocrepis probably belong to this new genus, 

 which difiers from Sarothrocrepis by the intermediate tarsi in the 

 male not dilated nor bearing (except on the apical joint) a dense 

 clothing of hairs beneath, by the shorter labrum, the apical 

 joint of the labial palpi not "compressed, dilated and truncate 

 at the apex," and the ligula longer as compared with its para- 

 glossse. Like Sarothrocrepis, its mentum has a long median 

 tooth (which however is more pointed), the 4th joint of the tarsi 

 is bilobed, the claws are pectinate, and in the male the apical 

 ventral segment has the apical margin nicked in the middle. 

 The genus is extremely near Lehia, but difiers in the well-defined 

 tooth of its mentum. From Eulehia, Macl., it difiers by the 

 less strongly dilated 4th joint of the tarsi, and from Lachnoderma, 

 Macl., by the non-securiform apical joint of the labial palpi. 



Sarothrocrepis suavis, sp.nov. 



Sat brevis; glabra; nitida; pallide testacea, elytris postice plaga 

 magna communi nigra ornatis ; capite prothoraci longitudine sat 

 sequali, subtiliter coriaceo ; prothorace capite dimidia parte 

 latiori, quam longiori plus dimidia parte latiori, basi quam antice 

 vix tertia parte latiori, subtiliter canaliculato, supra obscure 

 transversim strigoso, latitudine majore mox ante medium posita, 

 angulis anticis rotundatis, posticis rotundato-obtusis, lateribus 

 leviter rotundatis pone medium sinuatis, sat late deplanatis ; 

 elytris sat fortiter striatis, apice oblique sinuato-truncatis, inter- 

 stitiis leviter convexis. [Long. 2|, lat. \\ lines. 



Maris palporum labialium articulo ultimo sat fortiter dilatato- 

 compresso, haud securiformi, apice truncato; segmento ventrali 

 apicali medio fortiter subtriangulariter emarginato ; tarsorum 



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